If physician-assisted suicide (PAS) becomes totally accepted in medicine and society it will quickly rival and surpass the number of deaths by abortion; and where one stands on this issue, as with any issue, is crucial. If one fools themselves that they can remain neutral on a subject, they may not be able to remain neutral for long; but unfortunately find that it is too late to take a side.
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) has shifted its' stand on PAS from oppositional to neutral. What? That's a dangerous shift, and here's why. When Oregon voted 51% for assisted-suicide in 1994, the Oregon Medical Association had decided to remain to neutral, and many analysts believe the Oregon Association's neutral stance on the issue, at that time, contributed to voter support. For at the last hour, when Oregon doctors dropped their neutrality and attempted to oppose the law on assisted-suicide ... it was too late. And when the assisted-suicide law was voted on again in 1997, it passed by an even wider margin. Whoah! So much for trying to stay on the fence about something.
For decades, there has been a stealth campaign, by euthanasia groups, to persuade medical, nursing, social work and other health related organizations, to adopt a position of neutrality on PAS. Why? Euthanasia groups know, it would be virtually impossible to get these organizations to approve assisted-suicide/euthanasia; resulting in the euthanasia movement remaining dead in the water. But ... if these groups remained neutral, it would play in the euthanasia proponent's favor. This is why, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine's shift to neutrality becomes deadly.
People might very well remind themselves of Shakespeare's famous quote: "A Rose by any other name is still a rose", where he was telling people that a name does not change the essence of a thing. The euthanasia movement's clever ploy to change people's minds on physician-assisted suicide, by changing their name, from "The Hemlock Society" to "Compassion and Choices", should not fool people. Socrates drank hemlock to kill himself. The word hemlock in the old title, simply conjures up images of someone poisoning themselves off .. not a very pleasant title. So by changing that title, using words like "compassion, and choice", the issue is framed in a much softer color. Once again, linguistic gymnastics at play - and Shakespeare would tell us not to be fooled.
The subtle daily sell on physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is ominous. The idea that a quality of life should allow for its' termination, is being sold everyday by the mainstream media and now the medical professions. Dr. Kevorkian's legacy lives on after his own death, which by the way, was natural. He did not die by his own product. But, unfortunately, many others will.
Remember, "quality of life" was the argument used by the eugenicist movement in Nazi, Germany, to justify killing off those they deemed unfit. The term they used was, "life unworthy of life".
Once again, as with abortion, murder is being sold using a play on words. "Choice" is the champion word of abortion proponents. Now, "compassion and choice" is being used to cloak another harbinger of death. And if you are on the fence of any issue, as the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine is now thinking it can do, it may be too late for you or your loved ones one day.
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) has shifted its' stand on PAS from oppositional to neutral. What? That's a dangerous shift, and here's why. When Oregon voted 51% for assisted-suicide in 1994, the Oregon Medical Association had decided to remain to neutral, and many analysts believe the Oregon Association's neutral stance on the issue, at that time, contributed to voter support. For at the last hour, when Oregon doctors dropped their neutrality and attempted to oppose the law on assisted-suicide ... it was too late. And when the assisted-suicide law was voted on again in 1997, it passed by an even wider margin. Whoah! So much for trying to stay on the fence about something.
For decades, there has been a stealth campaign, by euthanasia groups, to persuade medical, nursing, social work and other health related organizations, to adopt a position of neutrality on PAS. Why? Euthanasia groups know, it would be virtually impossible to get these organizations to approve assisted-suicide/euthanasia; resulting in the euthanasia movement remaining dead in the water. But ... if these groups remained neutral, it would play in the euthanasia proponent's favor. This is why, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine's shift to neutrality becomes deadly.
People might very well remind themselves of Shakespeare's famous quote: "A Rose by any other name is still a rose", where he was telling people that a name does not change the essence of a thing. The euthanasia movement's clever ploy to change people's minds on physician-assisted suicide, by changing their name, from "The Hemlock Society" to "Compassion and Choices", should not fool people. Socrates drank hemlock to kill himself. The word hemlock in the old title, simply conjures up images of someone poisoning themselves off .. not a very pleasant title. So by changing that title, using words like "compassion, and choice", the issue is framed in a much softer color. Once again, linguistic gymnastics at play - and Shakespeare would tell us not to be fooled.
The subtle daily sell on physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is ominous. The idea that a quality of life should allow for its' termination, is being sold everyday by the mainstream media and now the medical professions. Dr. Kevorkian's legacy lives on after his own death, which by the way, was natural. He did not die by his own product. But, unfortunately, many others will.
Remember, "quality of life" was the argument used by the eugenicist movement in Nazi, Germany, to justify killing off those they deemed unfit. The term they used was, "life unworthy of life".
Once again, as with abortion, murder is being sold using a play on words. "Choice" is the champion word of abortion proponents. Now, "compassion and choice" is being used to cloak another harbinger of death. And if you are on the fence of any issue, as the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine is now thinking it can do, it may be too late for you or your loved ones one day.
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